23.1 Introduction to DFC

The best way to get started is by looking at the DFC Javadocs for the API specification. If you have installed DFC (standalone or along with some other Documentum products such as Application Builder or Content Server), browse to the following location on your local machine:

Example: C:\Program Files\Documentum\help\dfc\api

Open index.html to look at the DFC API and spend some time going through the available packages, interfaces, and classes.

The following naming conventions must be followed in DFC API:

• Packages begin with com.documentum.

  There are numerous packages available in DFC such as com.documentum.xml.xdql, which provides interfaces and classes for using XDQL and com.documentum.fc.client, which provides interfaces and classes for creating/managing Docbase sessions and manipulating data in Docbase.

• Interfaces begin with IDf.

  Two commonly used DFC interfaces are IDfSessionManager and IDfSysObject.

• Classes begin with Df.

  Two commonly used classes in DFC are...